APX-IV-0058
“My business finally turned a real profit and I want to stand tall in it.”
You bet on yourself when no one else would, and the numbers finally proved you right. Strength here is not the swagger — it is refusing to apologize for having dared something most people won't. Let the win land. You are allowed to be proud of building something from nothing.
Your Practice
- Name the moment you almost quit. Mark how far past it you've come.
- Tell the people who doubted you, calmly, that it worked — without bitterness.
- Pay one person forward who's where you were at the start.
- Decide what you'll dare next, while the courage is hot.
The Architects
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much.”
— Theodore Roosevelt, 'The Strenuous Life,' address before the Hamilton Club, Chicago, April 10, 1899